Meeting Minutes
4/20/2020
Call to Order by Alexander at 7:06PM.
Welcome and introductions
Intro and ice breaker
Approval of minutes
Mustafa motions to approve minutes from 4/20/2020. Angel Martinez seconds. Unanimously approved
Officer reports
President: Angel Martinez
- SVYD remains active on social media during this pandemic.
- COVID-19 has revealed that we need electeds that support their constituents and base their decisions on their constituents’ well being.
- We need to get more young people elected into office.
Vice President: Alexander Gvatua
- Due to COVID-19, canvassing is not an option right now, but SVYD hopes to support endorsed candidates by phone banking.
Membership Director: Allie Hughes
- Membership to isolate and check local CDC for updates in their area
- OCI (Orchard City Indivisible) meeting on 4/21/20 from 6:30-9:30PM
Finance Director: Ryan Globus
- The fundraising committee has an upcoming fundraiser on May 28 at 7pm via Zoom.
- COVID-19 has revealed the importance of local politics; grateful for local electeds
Political Director: Mustafa Arshad
- Thankful for everyone that joined this meeting
- Endorsement committee is ongoing and will be interviewing candidates soon; will endorse and talk about local races soon
Secretary: Brenda Vargas
- N/A
Old Business
- Consideration of bylaw changes to allow early endorsements from SVYD to change the voting majority from 60% to more than 50% of the majority
- Motion to endorse the split roll tax amendment by Angel and second by Ryan
- 14 in favor, 0 against, 0 abstentions
- Motion passes
- Fundraiser committee update
- Fundraiser is set for May 28, 2020 at 7PM
- Cost: $20 for general audience and $10 for students and youth
- Featuring Cindy Chavez and Assemblymember Evan Low
- Focused on what youth engagement looks like for the upcoming election
- Fundraiser is set for May 28, 2020 at 7PM
New business
- Consideration of endorsement for David Cohen for San Jose City Council, District 4
- Motion to endorse David Cohen for San Jose City Council, District 4 by Mustafa and second by Emily Ramos
- 15 in favor, 0 against, 0 abstentions
- Motion passes
- Consideration of endorsement for Josh Becker for California State Senate, District 13
- Motion to endorse Josh Becker for California State Senate, District 13 by Justin Lardinois and second by Emily Ramos
- 14 in favor, 0 against, 1 abstention
- Motion passes
- Consideration of endorsement for Ali Saperman for San Jose Evergreen Community College Board of Trustees
- Motion to endorse Ali Saperman for San Jose Evergreen Community College Board of Trustees by Angel and second by Mustafa
- 13 in favor, 0 against, 1 abstention
- Motion passes
- Guest Speaker: Ketzal Gomez running for Santa Clara County Board of Education, District 4
- Guest Speaker: Michael Vargas
- Support Michael Vargas in proposing to change Santa Clara Central Committee bylaws to allow democrats to endorse nondemocrats in races without democrats, that exemplify democratic ideals.
- Alex motion, second by Alex
- 14 yes, 1 no, 0 absentions
- Motion passes
Announcements
- Michael Vargas- Re-establishment of Silicon Valley Stonewall Democrats
- Contact Michael or Ray Muller, Allie or Justin, if interested
- Matthew Lewis- CYD State Leadership on May 16 (all day event)
- CYD Bay Area region Town Hall tentatively Saturday, April 25, 2020.
- If you know any high schools or colleges that want to be charted, make sure that they do it by the beginning weeks of May.
- Christophe- Earth Day virtual events
- Ro Khanna- Facebook townhall on Saturday at noon
- Allie- SVYD Fundraiser on May 28, 2020
- If you want to get involved with planning, reach out to Allie or Christophe.
Adjournment
Alexander Gvatua motions to adjourn at 8:50pm. Second by Ryan. Unanimously approved.